<h1><code ng:non-bindable="">angular.toJson</code>
<span class="hint">(API in module <code ng:non-bindable="">ng</code>
)</span>
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<div><a href="http://github.com/angular/angular.js/edit/master/src/Angular.js" class="improve-docs btn btn-primary">Improve this doc</a><h2 id="Description">Description</h2>
<div class="description"><div class="angular-tojson-page"><p>Serializes input into a JSON-formatted string. Properties with leading $ characters will be
stripped since angular uses this notation internally.</p></div></div>
<h2 id="Usage">Usage</h2>
<div class="usage"><pre class="prettyprint linenums">angular.toJson(obj[, pretty]);</pre>
<h3 id="Parameters">Parameters</h3>
<ul class="parameters"><li><code ng:non-bindable="">obj – {Object|Array|Date|string|number} – </code>
<div class="angular-tojson-page"><p>Input to be serialized into JSON.</p></div></li>
<li><code ng:non-bindable="">pretty<i>(optional)</i> – {boolean=} – </code>
<div class="angular-tojson-page"><p>If set to true, the JSON output will contain newlines and whitespace.</p></div></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="Returns">Returns</h3>
<div class="returns"><code ng:non-bindable="">{string|undefined}</code>
– <div class="angular-tojson-page"><p>Jsonified string representing <code>obj</code>.</p></div></div>
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